Transformation Project Manager

Role Purpose

LBTH are currently looking for a Transformation Project Manager to join our Strategy and Transformation Team and help the Council deliver its transformation agenda. Transformation in Tower Hamlets is at a genuinely exciting stage; with the adoption of a new Strategic Delivery Plan there is a clear vision, lots to do and a real desire to improve customer experience. The scale of change is significant; we are working with and across all functions to maximise the impact of opportunities offered by partnership working, focusing on outcomes, and digital innovation.

Key Responsibilities

As a Transformation Project Manager, you will be responsible for three to four pivotal projects. You will support the Programme Managers and Head of Service to implement best practice, mentor less experienced project staff and provide advice and support to other areas of the organisation.

You will take ownership of project delivery, active risk, and stakeholder management, helping the organisation scope, design and deliver the right change. You will have a strong focus on outcomes and benefits management and be able to identify and articulate risks and issues in a way that enables the organisation to take informed decisions. You will matrix manage project teams and draw support from a central team of project professionals to deliver across the organisation.

Requirements

You will, demonstrate experience of successful project delivery within a large, complex, organisation, and have appropriate professional qualifications.

Application Details

For an informal discussion about the above role please contact Bola Akinfolarin Transformation Programme Manager - [email protected] or Lucy Clifton Transformation Programme Manager - [email protected]

Interviews will be held in week commencing 29th May 2023.

This post is open to the following types of applicants: Redeployees/ Internal/ External

If this role is available to Internal employees only, this will include agency workers but does not include independent contractors or Skills Match trainees

All applications should be made via our online application system, no CVs or alternative forms of applications are accepted. Internal employees should apply via the council's Intranet. External applicants apply via the Council's website www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/careers.

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.